diff --git a/Server/src/main/content/region/kandarin/seers/quest/elementalworkshop2/BeatenBook.kt b/Server/src/main/content/region/kandarin/seers/quest/elementalworkshop2/BeatenBook.kt
index 335fd222a..11f167232 100644
--- a/Server/src/main/content/region/kandarin/seers/quest/elementalworkshop2/BeatenBook.kt
+++ b/Server/src/main/content/region/kandarin/seers/quest/elementalworkshop2/BeatenBook.kt
@@ -205,34 +205,38 @@ class BeatenBook : InteractionListener {
     override fun defineListeners() {
         on(Items.BEATEN_BOOK_9717, IntType.ITEM, "read") { player, node ->
 
-            // increment quest stage if needed
-            if (getQuestStage(player, Quests.ELEMENTAL_WORKSHOP_II) == 1) {
-                setQuestStage(player, Quests.ELEMENTAL_WORKSHOP_II, 2)
-                setVarbit(player, EW2StageVarbit, 2, true)
-            }
+            // check the player is not already reading the book
+            if (!player.interfaceManager.isOpened) {
+                // increment quest stage if needed
+                if (getQuestStage(player, Quests.ELEMENTAL_WORKSHOP_II) == 1) {
+                    setQuestStage(player, Quests.ELEMENTAL_WORKSHOP_II, 2)
+                    setVarbit(player, EW2StageVarbit, 2, true)
+                }
 
-            storeBookInHouse(player, node)
+                storeBookInHouse(player, node)
 
-            // if the player doesn't have the scroll, drop it
-            if (hasAnItem(player, Items.SCROLL_9721).container == null) {
-                sendMessage(player, "The book has two parts; an introduction and an instruction section.")
-                sendMessage(player, "You flip the book open to the introduction and start reading.")
-                addItemOrDrop(player, Items.SCROLL_9721) // scroll needs to be added here because otherwise in the afterClose block it'll give you 3 lmao
-                openDialogue(player, object : DialogueLabeller() {
-                    override fun addConversation() {
-                        item(Item(Items.SCROLL_9721), "You find a slip of paper that has been used", "for a bookmark. You put it in your pack to", "study later.")
-                        afterClose { player ->
-                            BookInterface.openBook(player, BookInterface.FANCY_BOOK_3_49, ::display)
+                // if the player doesn't have the scroll, drop it
+                if (hasAnItem(player, Items.SCROLL_9721).container == null) {
+                    sendMessage(player, "The book has two parts; an introduction and an instruction section.")
+                    sendMessage(player, "You flip the book open to the introduction and start reading.")
+                    addItemOrDrop(player, Items.SCROLL_9721) // scroll needs to be added here because otherwise in the afterClose block it'll give you 3 lmao
+                    openDialogue(player, object : DialogueLabeller() {
+                        override fun addConversation() {
+                            item(Item(Items.SCROLL_9721), "You find a slip of paper that has been used", "for a bookmark. You put it in your pack to", "study later.")
+                            afterClose { player ->
+                                BookInterface.openBook(player, BookInterface.FANCY_BOOK_3_49, ::display)
+                            }
                         }
-                    }
-                })
+                    })
+
+                    // if player has scroll, open book
+                } else {
+                    sendMessage(player, "The book has two parts; an introduction and an instruction section.")
+                    sendMessage(player, "You flip the book open to the introduction and start reading.")
+                    BookInterface.openBook(player, BookInterface.FANCY_BOOK_3_49, ::display)
+                }
+            } else sendMessage(player, "Please finish what you're doing first.") // this is the same message/logic used for clue scrolls
 
-            // if player has scroll, open book
-            } else {
-                sendMessage(player, "The book has two parts; an introduction and an instruction section.")
-                sendMessage(player, "You flip the book open to the introduction and start reading.")
-                BookInterface.openBook(player, BookInterface.FANCY_BOOK_3_49, ::display)
-            }
             return@on true
         }
     }